THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
OCTOBER · 25, 1930.
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50 Cents per Hox,
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DEPT.
John Jones records his vote in favour of a Liberal, Conservative or Labour candidate, he feels he is voting for certain principles and not for an individual, his interest
DAY BY DAY
THE ONLY ABIDING WFALTH IS HU-
is national rather than local. HMAN ENERGY.-| Zangwill
is voting for a form of Govern- ment, if only on the the "try every-
The
Gazette contains revised thing once" principle and if he regulations under the Midwives
Ordinance.
does
con-
not approve of the sequences, he switches at the first
The local weather forecast till.
WORTH HURRYING FOR! Opportunity. Remove, the party noon to-morrow is:-East winds,
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Price $500.00
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WEDDING.
SEE CHIN-QUING YEN-The wedding will shortly take place of Reginald, eldest son of Mrs, Maude See Chin, 11, Hankow Read, and the late Mr. Yan She Chin, to Myrtle Eileen, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Quing Yen formerly of Melbourne. Australian papers please.coNY.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, OCT.
25. 1930.
Mr. N. L. Smith resumed duty as Deputy Clerk of Councils, with effect from the 23rd instant.
labels, which is all it would moderate; fair. amount to, and Heaven knows what would emerge from the confusion. There is only one other alternative, 1 nominated doubt if Government, and we the "revolutionaries" are pre- pared to go as far as that.
Cheung Shiu-lau (39), a married woman living at 30, Western Street, committed suicido by hanging her- self this morning at about 5 o'clock.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.I.E., to be a Member of the Board of. Education for a period of two
It is not required of the student to strive hard to discover exactly what the vast majority of them do want. Most any government would be satisfactory provided it years. was prepared to impose tariffs.
A Chinese passenger fell over- Free Trade is good enough when board from the Yaumati Ferry times are good. When conditions Man Shun in midstream last even- are adverse, it is, of course, sui-ing, and was rescued by a Chinese.
seaman of a passing launch. cidal. Profits are down. Control of the home market and higher
Mr. George Harris, a fitter em prices would render less arduous ployed at the Kowloon Dock, has the task of directors at board reported the theft of money and jewellery to the value of $187 from meetings and at meetings with his residence at 13, Shung Heung shareholders. Even the contra-Street. dictions and absurdities of En-
It is notified that at the expira- pire Free Trade would do if they tion of three months the Ping On secured for them a temporary Accident Insurance Company, advantage. In our view the only Limited will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the impressive consideration for, a register and the Company will be tariff is that mentioned by Mr. E. dissolved..
D. Simon at the Liberal Summer The street commencing at the School. It would provide a new north-west corner of Marine Lot source of revenue for the Chan-No. 122 running parallel to and be- cellor of the Exchequer, who badly Road, terminating at the west side tween Hennessy Road and Wanchai
needs it. If there were any as of Marine Lot No. 196 is in future
On Lok Lane. surance that Mr. Philip Snowden to be known would control the country's
Mr. H. L. Pratt, head of the finances over a long period of Standard Oil Company of New years, we should have no objec-York, arrived here by the s.8. Pre- sident Cleveland, accompanied by tion to special measures. With his wife. They are staying at the out a fanatical Free Trader per-residence of Mr. P. W. Parker,
FREE TRADE HERETICS. manently at the Treasury, how-age of the local Socony:
That the defeatists should hold the floor in Britain just now is a
.
ever, it would be exceedingly rash to embark upon a policy of import duties. People are too ready to natural outcome of the persistence assume that it would be discarded of the industrial depression. They when its immediate urpose had follow the cycles of economic dis- been achieved. The whole turbances so closely as to form, al-perience of man is precisely the Protective duties once opposite.、 most, a part of them. The mere fact that the ranks are to-day be-imposed increase under organised pressure until they obtain the
Refuse Destruction.
ex-
office.
The health bulletin of Eastern Ports for the week ending the 18th Inst. gives the following cases of infectious diseases and the deaths therefrom: Plague, Alexandria 3 cases 1 death, Bombay 1 case 1 death, Carnarvon 1 case 1 death. Bombay 11
8 Cholera, deaths, Calcutta 9 cases 4 deaths, Tuticorin 1 case 1 death, No-Ilo 2- deaths, Bangkok 2 cases 1 death, Shanghai 4 cases 2 deaths. Small- 1 death, Cochin 4 cases, Madras 3 cases,
cases
ing swelled by recruits from most monstrous proportions now to be pox, Calcutta 2 cases unexpected quarters is not to be
seen in America. Great Bri-Negapatam 3 cases 2 deaths, taken as a sign of, their justifica- tain is an importing country, Tuticorin 1 case, Penang 2 cases, tion, but a9 further evidence, if
Shanghai 1 case. which says all that need be said, such were nçeded, of the unpre- cedented severity of the crisis through which trade is passing. Sir Felix Schuster, the noted banker, It is interesting to read that one latest Free Trade heretic, and the of the greatest problems of the Municipal Council's newest ally of the "business re-Shanghai
Public Works Department and the volutionaries" has little to say that
health authorities is expected to is new. He urges the formation of be solved in the near future by the a National Government, consisting purchase and erection of a modern of the lending men of all Parties, incinerator for the speedy disposal and an independent Council of of the enormous quantity of refuse collected from all city districts from producers, traders, working men
day to day. The Council has decid-i and economists free from the ed upon the purchase of a large tyranny of party politics, as the Balmer incinerator which is to be way to restore național' prosperity. erected in the eastern district at He wants, as everyone else, taxa-a total cost of Tis. 365,000. This tion to be cut, and he turns to safe-will be constructed in the course guarding and empire preferences as of the ensuing. year, together with a cremating chamber, and will be the solution of Britain's economic in addition to the German incin problems. We find it difficult to erator of the "Inferno" the re- distinguish between his particular cently ordered for erection panacea and that proposed by the Penang Road, in the western National Council of Industry, He district. The news is of particular speaks of safeguarding instead of interest to Hongkong in view of the fact that it has often been argued tariffs, if that represents a dif- here that incinerators would not ference,, but like Sir William be of much use in dealing with the Morris's organisation, he omits to type of refuse with which this tell us the process by which his Colony has to deal. In this con- galaxy of all the talents from the nexion it may be noted that in- existing political parties would vestigations revealed that incine- rators which were suitable for achieve anything at all. Mr. cities such as London and Berlin Winston Churchill and Mr. Philip were not adaptable to the peculiar Snowden collaborating in the Shanghai conditions. The rub formulation of a fiscal policy bish of Shanghai consists, for the for the country, might form greater part, of vegetable matter and non-combustible material, and the subject of an excellent
its destruction is, therefore, con- cartoon, but why labour the siderably more difficult. After point? There are serious dis- careful search and investigation, advantages inherent in the party however, two types of incinerator system. That must be admitted. were found which would suit the But it seems to us the only avail- purposes of Shanghai. If Hong. able instrument for accomplishing ing a modern method of refuse kong ever again thinks of adopt- anything in the way of practical destruction, it might do worse results. Party politics have this than to profit from Shanghai's much in their favour: When experience.
on
BEVERLEY NICHOLS offers
A CHILD'S GUIDE TO DIET.
Q. Mother, may I take a marsh-1
mallow now?
A. No; you have already had a suflicient amount of calories. Q. What do calories dot
A. They provide heat for the
body.
Q. If I ate a hundred marshmal-
lows would I get very hot? A. Your blood would be heated,
certainly...
¿
Q. Then if I ate ten thousand marshmallows would I start to boil?
A: Do not be ridiculous. Q. Then how can you say that calories provide heat for the body?
A. Because. . how many times have. I told you not to blow bubbles in your sterilised milk?
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Q. Need I finish this, salad.
mother? A. Yes. Q. Why?
A. It cleanses the blood. Qis granny's blood very dirty,
...mother?
A. How dare you say such things. Q. Because granny doesn't like
saluds.
A. She belongs to an older
generation.
Q. If granny had eaten lots of salads how old would she live to be?
A. Very old indeed.
Q. Did Methuselah cat lots of
salads, mother?
.
A. How should I know 7
Q. Did Abraham eat- A. Stop worrying me.
Q. Mother, there's a slug in the
salad.
A. Then remove it.
Q. If I had eaten the slug, would
you have let me have a mar- | shmallow?
A. Perhaps.
Q. (A pause.) I've eaten it,
mother. May I have marshm-
A. (Exasperated) You are very the disgusting. And, for nineteenth time, you are not to make pellets of your who~ lemeal bread.
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Q. If granny ate a lot of marsh- mallows would her blood get very hot?
A. Certainly.
Q. Then why didn't it get hot when she ate a pound yes- terday?
A. Because because your grandmother has a remark- able constitution.
Q. Then why did she say it was lucky you were as strong as a horse or Doctor Smythe would have killed you long ago?
A. Granny said that? Q. Yes. And why did she say that if her granny had spent all day worrying about proteins the family would have been extinct?
You can't blame a girl for trying.
wwwwwwwww
A. Really she-
Q. Yes. And why did she" say” that if she could only stay alive by eating grass she'd rather die and go straight 'to
A. (Apitatissimo.)
You have spilt your hygienic salt all over my best rug.
Q. Must I cat an apple after
kinch, mother?
A. Yes. (Brightly.) An apple a
day keeps the doctor away. Q. Do you want to keep Doctor
Smythe away?
A. Not if he is necessary.
Q. Does daddy want to keep Dr.
Smythe away?
A. (Sharply.) Why should he? Q. Because he said that if an apple a day would do it, he'd eat an orchard.
A. (Changing the subject kosti- .) Your father ents too much meat.
Q. Aren't there any proteins in
ment, mother?
A. Yes. No. I... well, that is.
not the point.
Q. Are there a lot of proteins in
the cold yellow things with cherries in them that you always drink when the young man comes to teach
you dancing?
A. (Confused.) You... you should not be so inquisitive. Q. If there are a lot of proteins
in the cold yellow things could I have one instead of finishing the salad, mother? A. (Snappily.) Unless you stop smearing your nut-butter on your jersey, I shall stop your pocket money.
Q. Does Doctor Smythe look after Jackie Brown, mother? A. (Shortly.) Nobody looks after Jackie Brown. He is a young barbarian.
Q. Is that why he eats so many
marshmallows?
"A. His parents would let him eat'
anything.
Q. And is that why he won the
hundred yards last term? A. There are exceptions to every
rule.
Q. And the quarter and the mile, after eating lots of mareh- mallows?
A. One day he will die of con-
vulsions.
are convulsions,
"Q. What
mother?
A. They are the result of excess. Q. Would you have convulsions if you drank six of the cold yel-
A. (Desperately.) If you.. con- tinue to make rabbits of your napkins, I shall send you to bod.
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QShall I have to eat things like this when I'm grown up? A. If you wish to be well and
happy.
Q. Isn't daddy well and happy? (Continued on Page 7.)
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